What are your favorite games?

Hey everyone,

I'd like this to be a thread for expanding our collective knowledge on games. Well all know about the big AAA titles, of which there are some true classes, but how about a mention of older or more obscure titles as well?

I'd start off by saying I love The Elder Scrolls series, from Skyrim to Arena, each for different reasons. In fact I maybe as so bold to say that Daggerfall is one of the best RPGs of all time, unsurpassed in a lot of aspects even today. The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind is probably one of my favorite games of all time; with brilliant lore, a wonderful atmosphere and an immersive world. Oh and don't forget the mods.

On the other hand I've been enjoying a game called Planet Explorers. It's a voxel based action/adventure game, with various game modes. It recently has been introduced to Steam via the Early Access program. If you'd like to find out more check out their Kickstarter page: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1757963851/planet-explorers. I'd also recommend checking out some Lets Plays on Youtube. TheCrankyOldGamer has some rather extensive coverage on the older builds.

 

This might be better off in another forum section. Still, while many will hate on GW2, it is my favorite game of all time. I grew up with LAN parties of Guild Wars and Dungeon Siege, so Guild wars will always be a favorite.

I also want to point out that Planet Explorers is not that great. In fact, the combat music is ripped directly from Orion Dino Horde. Yeah, that's right. Maybe the music is generic and free to use, but it's the same. The combat music (in the demo that I played) is exactly the same.

 

Project Reality- A Battlefield 2 Mod. This mod has so much content, it's essentially a standalone game. There's so many cool things in it, I can't explain it all here, but if you like teamwork and a semi-realistic FPS (but not as hardcore as Arma) this is the game for you.

Also sims 2 and 3.

 

Rightnow i'm playing Planetside 2 and Path of Exile. Enjoying both games very much. PS2 is just epic, amazing battles, action, graphics but it taxes the PC insanely.

 

LanceAvion nice choice of games. Planet explorers has my attention too. If you like voxel based games I highly recommend you have a look at 7 Days to Die and Cube World. Both have a huge amount of exploration and customization similar to Planet explorers.

I also recommend you have a look at
Dungeon lords mmxii- it's a 3rd person single player or coop rpg (not MMO, non point & click) which is actually extremely rare. The amount of variety in the game is astonishing. The gameplay is a tiny bit clunky but considering what's on offer it's totally acceptable.

 

Battlefield 3 & 4, Tomb Raider (2013) and Crysis 3.

 

What do you mean?

Errr maybe I should have clarified, Planet Explorers has the potential to be one of my favorite games. Generic music doesn't bother me as long as it fits, and it could even be replaced at this point (it's still in early alpha).

You know what? I remember hearing about this mod a while ago, but I completely forgot about it. Thanks for the memory jog.

I've actually been waiting to see how they develop. Cube World in particular seems to have stalled in terms of development, unless things have changed since I last checked.

How interesting, I'll look into it.

Into the classics I see

 

BF4, Planetside 2, World of Tanks and War Thunder

 

(Spider) Solitaire. Microsoft Flight Simulator X comes in close second.

 

Mass Effect trilogy (best action RPGs ever?)
IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 collection (still the gold standard for flight sims)
Borderlands 2 (ridiculously, unapologetically good fun)

 

Why do my posts keep getting deleted!? I posted here three times and every time it's been deleted???

Four times a charm I hope:

I'm in to combat flight sims. If you're in for a try, IL-2 is a classic, DCS A-10 also a must but requires a full HOTAS for best enjoyment. Other medium core ones are Wings of Prey and Rise of Flight are fun. HAWX 1 & 2 are good for an arcade flight shooter too.

 

Maybe mods don't like combat sims .

 

Myst
Homeworld
Grim fandango

 

Dota 2, heavily modded Fallout: New Vegas, Mirror's Edge and especialy Mafia 2 got me hooked.

 

Half Life 2 (along with the Episodes 1 & 2).

The characters, the atmosphere, the world, the story, the environmental physics puzzles, the enemies, the weapons, the soundtrack - it's all so, so, so good.

I'm one of those people who are stoked for Half Life 3.

 

Ian a Rts fan so c&c series, TA, Sup Com, dungeon keeper 1,2, homeworld series esp cataclysm.

Right now playing red alert 1 again. What a classic!


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The first Quake was the one game I have spent the most time at. Currently I play Skyrim and CivilizationV the most, sometimes some Battlefield3.

 

I've made a list so bloody long I'm even ashamed to post it... =\

Not a single game on my notebook or phone currently, btw... at least until I buy one more hdd and bigger card respectively. =)

 

Come on, post the list!
*Eggs on*

 

I suck at flight sims. I want to be good at it, but I just suck.

 

As long as you never have to fly a plane...

 

I love them, but my problem is I don't get the time for them any more. You need to commit huge chunks of time to become proficient. I probably sank at least 1000 hours into Falcon 4 with my home made cockpit, with projector, dual PC, three screens, stick, throttle, rudders, etc. And that got my skill set up to just mediocre. Getting your flight set up, flying to the hot zone, and not getting blown out of the sky immediately after taking 30 minutes to get there was a challenge, let alone finding and killing the target. I also had a lot of fun with Enemy Engaged Comanche-Hokum/Apache-Havok. Graphics sucked, but the dynamic campaign and AI were decent and offered quite a challenge. Once you invest your time in a sim though you don't want to stop because you actually quickly lose the skill set, mainly because of all the commands required to operate the aircraft.

 

My favorite game right now is Sword Of The Stars: The Pit.

It's the Sci-Fi rougelike I've always wanted. With the 2 expansions, there are now 9 different classes to choose from, including 5 different alien races and one unlockable secret character.

 

Hello Kitty Island Adventure is the best game ever.

The most enjoyable games I have played recently are Terraria, Bioshock 1 & Infinite, Borderlands 1 & 2

Currently, South Park Stick of Truth is my favourite.

I spent entire college semesters playing the original Team Fortress and the Warcraft 3 mod Defense of the Ancients. I now spend even more time playing their sequels.

 

Unreal and Far Cry, a couple of forgotten gems which contained watershed moments for me as a gamer. I'll never forget the sense of awe and grandeur which filled me as I gazed upon the vast beauty of Na Pali after emerging from the wreckage of the Vortex Rikers. Feasting my eyes on the island of Far Cry for the first time was similarly breathtaking. Unreal also stands out for having the hardest bot AI I've ever encountered. Definitely two under-appreciated and oft-overlooked masterpieces that were unfortunately buried under the hype surrounding other titles that year. Unreal was overshadowed by Half-Life, and similarly Far Cry was overshadowed by Half-Life 2 and Doom 3.

Halo PC for its shooting and movement mechanics, great campaign and enemy AI, frenetic and competitive multiplayer, and mods.

Call of Duty for being the most influential FPS of the last decade, for better or for worse. And Medal of Honor: Allied Assault which begat CoD. Both were highly cinematic and paradigm-shifting experiences.

Battlefield 2 for being the best online multiplayer FPS I've ever played and for its countless memorable moments.

Playing a lot of PlanetSide 2 at the moment. Still withholding final judgment on whether it'll end up on my list of all-time faves.

 

+1 on Halo: CE for PC. Played that every day for years as a kid with friends. Loved modding and hosting servers, too.

I remember when Halo 2 came out on Xbox and PC, lol. Had great fun with the lock on rocket launcher...

 

Halo 2 Vista was forgettable at release and pretty much died in 4 months when Halo 3 came out on 360. It was actually worse on PC than it was on Xbox. Sure, graphics were improved (but still awful by 2007 standards), but co-op and other game modes were removed and the online community was non-existent. The Vista requirement didn't help either, although there was a crack to enable XP support. Plus there is no Custom Edition like there is for Halo PC and no private servers. So when M$ shuts down the MP servers soon it'll be dead forever, meanwhile Halo PC and CE are still going strong 11 years and counting and will continue to occupy a permanent space on my hard drive.

And of course Halo 2 Vista will be remembered in history as one of the launch titles for the now infamous GFWL.

Long story short, if you wanted to play Halo 2, you played it on Xbox at release. You didn't wait 3 years for a mediocre and outdated copy-and-paste PC port.

 

I will always have a soft spot for Quake & Quake 2. I played many many hours of Q2 CTF over a dialup connection and later cable.

glQrack is currently installed (Quake 1 mod that allows opengl on modern hardware).

Right now I am playing WoW (no longer hard core, but my main died in Molten Core many times farming that place). Counter-Strike:Source and Hawken. I was playing Mechwarrior Online (which my M4500 only got around 22 fps at 1280x800), but my son quit playing it and it's just not as much fun without him. :thumbsup:

 

Favorite video game for ps3 were Socom Confrontation and uncharted games. I played a lot Socom Confrontation, like the clan matches and communication between team members. I currently play CS:GO and BF4.

 

Long-time favorites? Civilization III and IV (but not 5), Europa Universalis III (with IV and perhaps more so Crusader Kings II strong contenders to the throne), Age of Empires II and III, and Railroad Tycoon II. I still play all of them occasionally except Age of Empires, and that one is only because I lost one of my AoE3 install CDs, and AoE II seems to have issues with all the post-XP SP1 computers I've tried it on (maybe it's the post-2004 graphics drivers that's the real problem?). And if we allow non-PC games, then Halo 2 for XBox. Still the best game of that series. Halo 1 is best in the series for PC, though. More recently, Chivalry has been one of my favorites, but it's too soon to say if it will be a lasting favorite like the ones listed previously.

 

Oh, yeah, forgot about Age of Empires II. I played that a lot back in the day.

 

HOW DO YOU TURN THIS ON x100

game over

 

I still have a Dell GX1 with SLI Voodoo2 cards in it so I can play honest to god glquake.

And yes, it's running Win95.

 

So many good games, and very hard to pick favorites. If I'm going by two criteria: this is a game I'll remember until the day I die and one I would go back to play today, I'd say...

Ultima VII: Black Gate
Out of this World
Outcast
Phantasy Star
System Shock 2
Baldurs Gate 2
Thief 2
Unreal Tournament 2
KOTOR
Shadows of the Colossus
The Elder Scrolls Oblivion and Skyrim
Bioshock
Condemned 1 and 2 ( up until the supernatural crap)
The Witcher
Assassin's Creed series (the fictional mix of historical locations and events really drew me in)
The Uncharted series
Dragon Age Origins
Mass Effect series

I have not yet played last of us, but by all accounts, it may need to be added to my list.

One thing i noticed putting this list together is that amazing graphics does not coorellate to it being a memorable and great game.

 

You nailed it right there. This is why I still like some of the older games. Awesome graphics does not equal excellent game play.

That reminds me... I need to see if "Privateer" will run on that GX1 or if I need to find something older. Sometimes I wish I would have kept my old machines in mothballs instead of giving them away.

 

What flight sims are we talkin' about - civil or combat?

 

Starbound. love that game

 

All of them. My childhood

*cry*

 

AAA games. STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl, Clear Sky and Call of Pripyat ( beat all 3 over 10 times each, yeah I love em that much ). CoD4 & World @ War are more fun now than ever as all of the little whiny punk kids moved onto the new CoD's leaving the adults some peace and fn quiet.

More obscure games. Darkened Skye, Dungeon Keeper 2 and American McGee's Alice. All 3 I highly recommend that anyone who hasn't played them at least try, especially if you like subtle and often dark humor.

More Obscure still. Dark Sun: Wake of the Ravager which is now abandon-ware and free for anyone willing to setup a DOS box and give this awesome little game a whirl.

 

Stalker guy here two, made all opus so many times with numerous mods i stopped counting, including Priboi story, and waiting for Lost Alpha like the messia Stalker is my gaming soulmate.